Improvement in windmill-motors



A. A, STUART. windmill-Motor.

No. 217,026; Patented July 1, 1879.

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ADDISON A. STUART, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WlNDMlLL-MOTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,026, dated July 1, 1879; application filed February 10, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADDISON A. STUART, a resident of Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn, in the State of Iowa, have invented a certain new, useful, and important Improvement in Windmill-Motors, the principal cons'ruction and operation of which are described in this specification.

Figure l is a vertical view of the motor combined by ball-and-socket joint with the pitman of a'windmill. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the motor, showing the shaft and drum or crank to be driven.

The object of my invention is to convert the reciprocating motion of the pitman of a windmill into constantrotarymotion communicated to a counter-shaft, thus rendering it easy and practicable to drive a grindstone, a cornsheller, a feed-mill, a churn, and other machinery by a windmill.

. The invention consists in a forked ratchetbarto operate alternatelyon the opposite sides of a pinion-wheel on a counter-shaft and, further, in the combination of this motor with the pitman of a windmill.

B is a forked ratchet-bar supported to slide on a frame, A, orin any suitable manner. The ratchet-bar has two ratchets, G O, to operate alternately upon a pinion-wheel, D, on a counter-shaft, at, having a pulley, d, or acrank, d or both. I

The ratchetbar B is connected to the pitman fof a windmill, E, by a universal joint, F. A pump may be operated by connecting the pump rod to the crank 0F, and a grindstone or other machine may be operated by a belt from the pulley d When the windmill is running, and the windmill and the motor are connected as described, the reciprocating motion of the pitman of the windmill is communicated to the ratchet-bar, which as it descends engages by ,one of its ratchets with the pinion-wheel, and

as it ascends engages by its other ratchet with the pinion-wheel, thus revolving the pinion-wheel, the counter-shaft, and the drum or crank continuously in one direction, to impart motion by belt or otherwise to the machin or machines to be operated.

The details of construction and operation may be varied without departing from the principle of my invention.

' I claim- 1. The combination, with the pitmau of a windmill, of a universal joint, aforked ratchetbar carrying two ratchets, U, controlled by springs, a pinion-wheel, a counter-shaft, and a drum or crank, to produce constant rotary motion in one direction, as shown and described. v 2. The combination, with the pitman of a windmill, of a forked ratchet-bar, B, two ratchets, O,'controlled by'springs, and a pinionwheel, to produce constant rotary motion in one direction.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my signature and aflix my seal in the presence of two attesting witnesses, in the city, county, and State aforesaid, this-15th day of January, A. D. 1879.

' ADDISON A. STUART.

Witnesses Row. J. THOMPSON, GEORGE LARIMER. 

